Last week Tony was complaining that his leg was stiff and hurt. I asked him where and he showed me a few different spots. It's the same leg that he badly (and I mean BADLY) sprained his ankle last september. So we figured that it was something to do with that, and that he might need to stretch more. We kind of chalked it up to the increased run and bike miles. Well yesterday he called me from nor cal and said he thinks he got a spider bite. He has a spot that is red and swollen and has two bite marks or red spots. Almost like fangs. I looked it up and it looks like a black widow bite. I told him to go the urgent care out there if it kept bothering him. Well he just called me and told me that he's staying home tomorrow to go to the doctor. So it must be bad. He never goes to the doctor.
I guess I'll just have to wait until he gets home to take a look at it. I'm a bit worried because he can lose half a limb and not complain. He has a high pain tolerance and never likes to admit that anything is wrong.
Has anyone ever had a bad spider or insect bite that did this? And if so was there anything the doctor could do? he said his leg is super stiff now.